Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum

The raw expression and design elements revealed in this masterful exhibition, Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum, reminds me of why I chose drawing and printmaking as my area of concentration for my BFA. I look forward to visiting this exhibit multiple times over the coming months.

Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum makes its international debut at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the first, and one of only two United States venues to host the exhibition. With works from a list that reads like a “who’s who" of international artists through the centuries, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to better understand the thinking behind an artist’s drawing, comparing side by side drawings from master draftsmen across five centuries. The featured artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Franz Kline and Rachel Whiteread.

Visiting the Lines of Thought Exhibition at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

The Lines of Thought Exhibition is a novel exhibition based on first-hand experience of the most effective approach to stimulating artists to engage creatively with drawings.

Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum
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Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now by Isabel Seligman (Author), Hugo Champan (Preface), Bridget Riley (Foreword)
Paperback – January 31, 2017
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Julie Mehretu, Untitled, 2002, pen and ink, and brush drawing on vellum and Mylar. © Julie Mehretu. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Jacopo Tintoretto, A nude man flying, around 1560–1590, charcoal. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Attributed to Frans Snyders, Animal studies, about 1594–1657, brush and pen drawing in brown ink, over graphite. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Peter Paul Rubens, Dancing figures, all linking hands, about 1627–1628, pen and brown ink. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Stephen Willats, Conceptual still-life, 1962, graphite, blue ball-point pen, brush drawing in black ink and collage. ©Stephen Willats. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Rachel Whiteread, Study for Floor, 1993, red ink and correction fluid on graph paper. © Rachel Whiteread. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Antoine Watteau, Plants and grasses with buildings in the background, about1714–1715, black chalk, with grey wash. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

A nude figure seated to front. 1508-12 Soft black chalk, very much rubbed. Michelangelo © The Trustees of the British Museum

Master of the Drapery Studies, Figure and drapery studies, about 1470–1497, pen and ink. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Sébastien Leclerc I, The Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts, 1698, pen and black and grey ink, with grey wash over red chalk, on two joined pieces of paper, with many smaller pieces inlaid and overlaid. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

William Kentridge, Arc Procession 9, 1989, charcoal and pastel. ©William Kentridge. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Study for Pindar in the Apotheosis of Homer, about 1826–1827, graphite and black chalk, squared for transfer. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Albrecht Dürer, Studies for Adam and Eve, 1504, pen and brown and black ink. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Edgar Degas, Nude woman bathing, about 1896–1898, charcoal. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Frank Auerbach, Head of Ruth, 1994–95, charcoal and graphite. ©Frank Auerbach (Courtesy of Marlborough Fine Art). Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Jacques Callot, Anatomical studies after Lodovico Cigoli and studies of figures and horses, around 1616, red chalk, pen and ink, and graphite. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Anonymous, Book of the Dead: the final judgement scene, about 940 BC, red and black ink on papyrus. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Honoré Daumier, Study for The Troubadour, about 1868–1872, pen and grey ink, with grey wash and black chalk. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Image: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519), The Virgin and Christ Child With a Cat, about 1478–81, pen and brown ink over stylus underdrawing. © The Trustees of the British Museum.

Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606-1669), A Clump of Trees in a Fenced Enclosure, about 1645, black chalk. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Melchior Lorck, Tortoise and view of a walled, coastal town, 1555, charcoal, heightened with white on blue paper. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Interior of a circular building, 1752–1760, pen and brown ink. Image ©The Trustees of the British Museum

Exhibitions, Santa Fe PlazaDeborah NelsonAugust 4, 2017Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art

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Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum